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Students arrested in Queensland as protest encampments defy orders
Pro-Palestine student protesters have been arrested in Queensland while others in Melbourne have defied orders to vacate an occupied building.
- Gus McCubbing
Glen Le Lievre cartoons for 2023-24
See all of Glen Le Lievre cartoons for 2023 and 2024.
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- Glen Le Lievre
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Labor premier backs Dutton’s plan to slash immigration
Queensland’s Steven Miles claims credit for the federal opposition’s policy to cut overseas arrivals, saying the housing industry needs time to catch up.
- Tom McIlroy
Australia ready to help Solomons build a defence force: Marles
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles will meet Solomon Islands’ new leader Jeremiah Manele in Honiara on Tuesday.
- Andrew Tillett
Vic Labor playing ‘ideological games’ on gas, says industry
Gas, business and union figures have slammed Victorian Labor’s energy stance after a state conference voted against federal Labor’s Future Gas Strategy.
- Gus McCubbing
Opinion & Analysis
Punters are not convinced by Labor’s budget
The budget had two main political aims: to help further with the cost of living; and, in doing so, buy a pre-election interest rate cut. The punters are not convinced it will achieve either, polling finds.
Political editor
Budget and reply add up to a bad week for Australian prosperity
Both major parties are failing to meaningfully engage with the centrist growth agenda of incentive-sharpening policy reform and mostly disciplined macro policy that provided the foundation for Australia’s three decades of prosperity.
Editorial
Dutton’s migrant crackdown treats economy with disdain
In the populist pitch to bring down house prices, there is little recognition of the role of migrants in filling acute skills shortages across the economy.
Deputy editor - News
Made in Australia is just copying US and China protectionism
Anthony Albanese has replicated the economic strategies of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. The small mercy so far is no increased tariffs on imports.
Columnist
Yesterday
Voters like gas better than wind power but solar is still king
A slide in support for wind farms has allowed gas to become entrenched as the nation’s preferred energy source after solar, an AFR/Freshwater Strategy poll has found.
- Phillip Coorey
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is dead, says Iranian official
Official said helicopter was ‘completely burned’; Liberals call for Diddy ban; Dutton accused of having ‘a vibe’, not policies. Follow updates live.
- Euan Black
- Exclusive
- Mining summit
Cook says magnetite will make WA the ‘California of Australia’
WA’s future in resources wasn’t just linked to battery minerals, but also to a different variety of iron ore largely overlooked by our mining industry: magnetite.
- Tom Rabe
This Month
- Opinion
- AFR Freshwater poll
Punters are not convinced by Labor’s budget
The budget had two main political aims: to help further with the cost of living; and, in doing so, buy a pre-election interest rate cut. The punters are not convinced it will achieve either, polling finds.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Budget and reply add up to a bad week for Australian prosperity
Both major parties are failing to meaningfully engage with the centrist growth agenda of incentive-sharpening policy reform and mostly disciplined macro policy that provided the foundation for Australia’s three decades of prosperity.
- The AFR View
Underwhelmed voters fear budget will lift rates
Almost 40 per cent of voters think last week’s big-spending federal budget increases the chances of another interest rate rise, and just one quarter believe they will be better off, the latest poll shows.
- Phillip Coorey
Victorian Labor votes to oppose Future Gas Strategy
The state branch of the party chastised the strategy at its annual conference, labelling it “incompatible” with Australia’s emissions reduction targets and international obligations.
- Ronald Mizen
Defence Force ‘ready to fly’ to New Caledonia
Australia is working with French authorities to ensure a quick exit for people seeking to flee strife-torn New Caledonia as soon as the Pacific island nation’s airport is reopened.
- Updated
- Cecile Lefort
Tax reform needed to break Australia’s economic inertia: think tank
The Blueprint Institute says the Australian economy is in a state of inertia and needs ambitious tax reform, calling for more focus on consumption, land and resources.
- Tom McIlroy
Meet the former Deloitte consultant taking on Allegra Spender
“There’s no doubt it is going to be a challenge,” says Roanne Knox. It’s a sentiment echoed by party insiders who think Wentworth will be the most difficult of all teal seats to win back.
- Ronald Mizen
Dutton’s immigration cuts would cost ‘billions’: Chalmers
Peter Dutton’s plan to slash immigration to free up housing and ease population pressures would cost billions, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned, accusing the opposition of plucking numbers “out of the air”.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Immigration
Dutton’s migrant crackdown treats economy with disdain
In the populist pitch to bring down house prices, there is little recognition of the role of migrants in filling acute skills shortages across the economy.
- Jessica Gardner
Dutton’s nuclear pitch needs massive subsidies: PM
Anthony Albanese labels the Coalition’s nuclear proposal as “shocking policy”; he says the ADF has been transparent about its investigations into Jack Fitzgibbon’s death. Here’s how the morning unfolded.
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- Lois Maskiell
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Made in Australia is just copying US and China protectionism
Anthony Albanese has replicated the economic strategies of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. The small mercy so far is no increased tariffs on imports.
- Alexander Downer
Australia won’t raid Pacific militaries to plug defence gaps: Conroy
Plans to recruit Pacific Islanders to join the Australian Defence Force are focusing on attracting school leavers with the offer of learning a trade.
- Andrew Tillett
‘I’m disgusted’: premier blasts pro-Palestine activists
Pro-Palestine protesters have stormed a Labor state conference in Melbourne amid heightened tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.
- Updated
- Callum Godde
Dutton’s housing fix ‘will worsen supply’
One of Australia’s biggest property developers says slashing permanent migration as a way to fix acute housing shortages will only exacerbate the problem.
- Tom McIlroy, Michael Read and Nick Lenaghan
One in, one out: Dutton plan ‘risks $48b foreign student industry’
Peter Dutton’s promise to reduce temporary migration to 160,000 people would smash the country’s fourth-largest export sector, experts say.
- Julie Hare
Albanese and Dutton fight on the home front for voters
With the countdown now on to the election, both sides used budget week to stake out their territory on the hot-button housing issue. But it’s already a crowded policy space, and there are no quick fixes.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Dutton wants a housing election. This could get nasty
As the RBA says, there are no quick fixes to the residential property crisis. But that won’t stop Peter Dutton trying before the next election.
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- James Thomson
